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Caspian Tern at Bear Swamp in Bombay Hook NWR, DE
The photo at the top of the comment box shows the tern picking up a meal
Species 145 for the Challenge 150
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My first of the season juvenile Caspian as the fog rolled in at Pillar Point. Tern activity was very low this day. Only a very few Caspians and Elegants started hunting as we were leaving.
Lots of activity on Surfer's Beach with a feeding frenzy near the shore by gulls and pelicans, but no terns there either.
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Caspian Tern.
One of many gathered at Shearness Pool in Bombay Hook NWR
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Caspian Tern fishing at Shearness Pool in Bombay Hook NWR
The photo in the comment box shows the tern locked onto its target and diving.
Technically these were taken with an extremely difficult lighting, backlit by a very bright overcast sky. I thought that they were discards but with the benefits of raw images and magic of photo-editing I was able to recover these images and in fact I quite like the final almost monochromatic result highlighting the red bill
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Largest tern in the world, preys mostly small fish...and quite noisy when in-flight lol.
Washington Sate, USA.
As already earlier described I am not really a peoples photographer. I always feel a little bit embarrassed when doing it, but in Central Asia there were so many situations with lovely people, heartbreaking situations, or people that show the vulnarability of life, that it was difficult to shut my eyes.
This shot is somewhat funny, but also it shows that life in these areas can be tough. People make long days to earn a little bit of money, so sometimes the body is just too tired to keep going.
For me the remembrance of the wonderful people in CA is something I will never forget in my life, and it has changed my opinion of these countries (and people in general) in a definitive way. This shot is to honor them.
20 September 2019 I came back from my journey over a part of the Silk Road to and through Central Asia. 4 months of traveling through 14 countries (Germany, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Iran) before I flew home from Teheran. An impressive journey in countries that are extremely beautiful, with lovely and welcoming people and diverse cultures and history.
Intense traveling with more than 20000 kilometers in our mobile home on sometimes roads that hardly could be called that way. We saw many villages and cities (some wonderful, others very ugly), countries that are transforming from the old Soviet era into something more related to older cultures and the way people live, often funded by oil readily available around the Caspian sea. We saw the amazing mountains south of the Black Sea, the wonderful Caucasus, and the high mountains in the far east close to China with peaks over 7000 meter, and not to forget the (Bulgarian) Alps!
We crossed the great steppe of Kazakhstan. a drive of at least 5000 km, the remnants of lake Aral, once one of the biggest lakes of the world, saw a rocket launch from Baikonur (this little part is Russian owned), we crossed many high mountains passes, and drove the breathtaking canyon that comes from the Pamir, beginning at ca 4500 meter, and going down for ca. 400km to an altitude of 1300 meter, driving for 100's of kilometers along the Afghan border.
And then the numerous lakes with all sorts of different colors from deep cobalt blue to turquoise, and one rare spectacle in Turkmenistan where a gas crater is burning already for more than 40 years. And finally and certainly not the least to mention an enormous amount of wonderful, hospitable and welcoming people. The woman often dressed in wonderful dresses, and bringing a lot of color in the streets of almost of all countries we visited.
Jonge Reuzenstern of Kaspische stern -
Juvenile Caspian Tern (Hydroprogne caspia).
Notice the still orange bill and brownish patches.
Caspian Tern
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The bird made a habit of flying up the creek and returning about 5 minutes later. All I had to do was wait for the next cycle.
Reuzenstern - Caspian tern (Hydroprogne caspia).
Rare, but getting more common now. First time I post one here.
Judging by the colour of the bill, this one is still a juvenile.
Adult bills are red.
While taking photos of shorebirds out on the beach, I also noticed a small group of Caspian Terns. Seemed to be young ones waiting for something. One adult Tern showed up with a small fish and paraded it back and forth among the group, then singled out one and led it away from the rest and fed the fish to him. I didn't actually see the transfer as the bird's back was to me, but next thing I knew the youngster had the fish.
Dark and gloomy day up here, No beach shots today. Stopped by Peace Valley Park to see what's going on. Spotted the three Caspian Turns fishing. This one came right above me to get a nice shot.
Peace Valley, PA
I just received the banding information on a Caspian Tern that I sighted at Middle Harbor Park back on August 2, 2018. This initial reporting was done through the USGS BBL and forwarded to Kirsten Bixler at Oregon State University who banded this bird.
Per Kirsten, this tern was originally banded as a chick at Knight Island in northern San Francisco Bay in 2003 which makes it 15 years old!! How cool is that? No wonder these bands are so faded!!